26.5041, Jobs: English; German; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Text-to-Speech Developer

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Subject: 26.5041, Jobs: English; German; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Text-to-Speech Developer

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:49:52
From:  Mencner [emeajobs at nuance.com]
Subject: English; German; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Text-to-Speech Developer, Turin, Italy

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Turin, Italy 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com/
Job Title: Linguist - Text-to-Speech Developer
Job Rank: Linguist - Text-to-Speech Developer; Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      German (deu) 

Description:

To strengthen our Research and Development team we are looking for a junior linguist specialized in phonetics. The ideal candidate has an outstanding academic record, experience with language technologies, and enjoys product oriented work. You will develop language and voice data for Nuance’s flagship text-to-speech system, Vocalizer. The technology you will work on is deployed in the majority of cars and speech-enabled mobile devices on the market today, and is used by global enterprises and healthcare providers. We offer a dynamic and international work environment based in Turin, Italy.

Core duties: 

- Build text-to-speech voices from recordings and annotations using the Nuance voice building toolkit
- Improve text-to-speech voices by analyzing data, listening to results, and learning new tools
- Supervise native contractors in the annotation of speech databases
- Create recording scripts and coach voice talents
- Follow test and release processes with an ear for final product quality and customer satisfaction

Number of Years of Work Experience: Recent graduates are encouraged to apply
 
Required Skills:

- Strong sense of precision and quality in your daily job
- Good problem solving, analytic skills and troubleshooting skills
- Working in Windows environment
- Some knowledge in scripting in either Python or perl 
- Ability to write high quality documentation
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Must have good English and German oral and written skills 

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with acoustic phonetics and spectrogram reading
- Experience in text-to-speech development
- Additional languages is advantageous 

Education: Master level knowledge of phonetics or phonology or Computational Linguistics or other relevant skills


Application Deadline: 31-Dec-2015 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: emeajobs at nuance.com 
Contact Information
	Mencner 
	Email: emeajobs at nuance.com 


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